“If I did the movie and I said that I wanted all this creative integrity,” he said, “how could I not have thought the guy, the crazy person that we were doing the movie about, wouldn’t launch missiles?”

He went on to suggest the creative forces behind the movie were warned of possible retaliation, explaining his view that an attack would be a fitting conclusion.

“If they do strike Seth Rogen and James Franco,” he said, “what a great end to their careers.”

crickets on @CNN as jay thomas suggest a spectacular end to franco’s and rogen’s careers if north korea strikes them